Accounts Assistant

Matrix Academy Trust, Walsall, WS4 2LA

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  8 December 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  26 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,612.00 Annually (Actual)

Accounts Assistant job summary

Accounts Assistant

Matrix Academy Trust Head Office, International House, 1st Floor, 20 Hatherton Street, Walsall, WS4 2LA

Full time, all year round. 37 hours. Monday to Friday

Starting salary: £27,612.00

Start Date: As Soon As Possible

About the role

We are seeking a proactive and highly organised Accounts Assistant to join our Central Finance Team at our Head Office. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting the financial operations of our eight schools, with a particular focus on purchasing, debtors, school trips and wider business activities.

Working closely with the Purchasing Manager and Finance Manager, you will ensure that financial processes are accurate, timely, and compliant with Trust procedures.

Main Responsibilities

• Process and generate purchase requests, ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
• Manage purchase orders that cannot be automatically issued through the Trust’s finance system, including credit card transactions.
• Support the daily administration of school trips—checking costings, ensuring compliance, and providing informed advice to trip leaders.
• Proactively implement the Trust’s financial procedures.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar finance or accounts assistant role.
• Strong understanding and practical application of accounting processes and procedures.
• Competence in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Experience using computerised accounting software.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships across multiple schools.

Please refer to the full job description and person specification for more information.

What We Offer

• A supportive and collaborative central team.
• Opportunities for professional development.
• A role where your work has a direct impact on supporting the education and experience of young people across the Trust.
• A comprehensive wellbeing package including Online GP, counselling services and annual health checks.

To apply please complete our application form on My New Term.

Application Deadline: 8th December 2025

Please note that suitable candidates will be called for interview and we reserve the right to remove any advertised role early.

Matrix Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS clearance and pre-employment checks in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Matrix Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Matrix Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/matrix-academy-trust

Our vision is simple: every child deserves an exceptional education. We make this happen by doing the things which really make a difference. Working smartly means we have staff who want to work here. It ensures we have the capacity to care for every pupil, providing them with the best possible education – without exception.

A great school is one people want to work at and one parents want to send their children to. No matter how great our schools might be, we never rest on our laurels. We are restless in our efforts to keep improving and we instil this in our young people.

Welcome to Matrix Academy Trust.

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